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'"•*■PRICE FIVE CENTSCAYTON'S WEEKLYPublished every Saturday at Seattle, Washington,U. S. A.In the Interest of equal rights and equal justice toall men and for "all men up."A publication of general information, but inthe main voicing the sentiments of the ColoredCitizens.It Is open to the towns and communities of thestate of Washington to air their public grienvances.Social and church notices are solicited for publication and will be handled according to the rulesof Journalism.Subscription $2 per year in advance. Specialrates made to clubs and societies.HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. .Editor and PublisherEntred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, atthe post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act ofMarch 3rd, 1916.TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910Office 303 22nd Ave. SouthCLARK COMES BACKNever in the history of Seattle has a newspaper change of hands brought forth thegeneral satisfaction as the change of thePost-Intelligencer from the Taylor-Bone administration to the Clarke M. Nettleton administration. To the reading public the announcement of the change was like a clapof thunder from a clear sky and since theannouncement it has been the seven day wonder as to what brought it about. But sufficient to the day is the evil thereof, thechange has been made regardless of whatprompted it and Seattle will be the gainerthereby.Clark Nettleton, the new publisher of thePost-Intelligencer, is no stranger to thejournalistic arena of Seattle and a veryfamiliar figure in the business circles of theNorthwest in general and Seattle in particular, and if he does not soon have the "oldpaper" back to its palmy days under LeighS. J. Hunt, when he, Nettleton, was its editor in chief, then we sadly miss our guess. Heknows well the temperment of the people hispaper will represent and he knows whatthey expect and want in the way of newsfor the leading paper of this city and stateand he is full and overflowing with the"stuff" that will give the people just whatthey want.Since leaving the editorial chair Mr. Nettleton has been closely identified with thebusiness world of the Northwest and it isestimated that his business firms have nettedalmost a million dollars, but be that as itwill, he has done business with business menon a wholesale scale and has held his own.No man in the city is more personallypopular than is Clark M. Nettleton, and having resided here for the past thirty oddyears and having kept fully abreast of thetimes he has an acquaintanceship second tono man in the city and he therefore hasbeen able to do but little more than receivecongratulations from every man and hisbrother for the past week. Who, if anyone, is associate with him in the purchase ofthe paper is of little or no concern to thepeople, sufficeth to them that Clark M. Nettleton heads the list and they as one personexclaim, "All is well."ELLIS TAKES EXCEPTIONSIn a communication to Cayton's WeeklyEverett C. Ellis, late candidate for SuperiorCourt judge of King county, denies havingreferred to the editor hereof as the "darkyeditor" and adds:"I have never yet drawn any distinctionbetween citizens on account of their color,and I have never referred to an editor or anindividual of the colored race as a "darky.'SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918If you like that flippant expression, pleasegive yourself the credit of using it, notme."If Mr. Ellis did not make use of the t^rm"darky editor" then we are delighted tomake the correction, and we are delightedbecause it's low down vulgar verbage suchas we abhor most and we are further delighted to meet one white man of Mr. Ellis'prominence, who disdains to speak thusly ofa human being. No, we do like that flippant expression and to go a step further,we do not like any man that does like it,but the expression is common to the averagewhite man, who delights to amuse hisfriends by referring to a eolorde man in language like the objectional, flippant expression. It was not long since that we heard aprominent white minister of the gospel inthe pulpit illustrate his point by telling astory of an "old darkey." He probably atheart bore the colored folk no illwill, but heknew that would please his hearers to leavethe impression with them '' that even thedarky, more beast than human, had an intuition from which a lesson might be drawn.The man who told us of the alleged Ellislanguage may perhaps have done so in orderto get Ellis in bad with us, and we verilybelieve now he did, but we believed what herepeated because he knew it's common tothe white man of the United States.Almost every day you will see somethingabout a colored person in one of the dailypapers of the city and in a two or threeinch article the person will be referred toby the writer as "the negro" not less thana dozen times, despite the fact the captionof the article labels the performer in boldblack type. The writer seems to be afraidthe reader will forget the fact that he orshe is writing about a Negro and so insteadof using the pronoun he or she negro takesthe place. No other class of human beingsin this country is similarly treated by thedaily (white) press and the writers thereofshould be ashamed of their everlasting desire to pull down instead of build up a certain class of citizens. There is never a premium placed on either the goodness or theeducational accomplishments of the coloredman in this country. His goodness is ridiculedand his alleged educational ability is scoffedat. If one of the reporters of the dailypapers had reasons to quote the most learnedcolored person in the United States he orshe would put plantation jargon in his orher mouth and such would be done despitethe fact that the writer had not more thancompleted a high school course. This would,be done because the colored man and jargon are synonomous to the average whiteperson and that simple minded high schoolsquirt gun is but pandering to the publicpulse in quoting a colored person in jargonand in making of his colored subject a crossbetween a man and a monkey if not in somany wdrds then by inuendo. Just last weeka white man was speaking to a colored audience in Seattle and dwelt at length of himhaving had a "black mamy" for a nurse, anda glance at his swarthy complexion convinced us that he was telling no lie, but hesaid nothing in that speech that he wouldhave said to a white audience. The coloredman of the United States thinks and actsjust like the white folks. Of the twelvemillion colored folk in this country six millions are mixed bloods (white and black)and still another million so white that theyare daily and hourly changing to white,hence the whites and the blacks can not differ to any great extnet.If Mr. Ellis is one of those white men thathave come to the conclusion that a black anda white man are alike human beings and hestands ready to extend to the black man theright hand of fellowship we will meet himmore than half the way, and for his liberalmindedness will at this time promise to support him for anything he may desire to runfor in the future. The colored man of thiscountry is sick and sore of the caste handicap and will boost any one that will deliverhim from the body of this dead one.REV. GRAHAM RETURNSCongratulations are in order for the Rev.D. A. Graham, pastor of the First A. M. E.Church of this city, who has just begun histhird year's pastorate of the church, for inthis he has broken the record, as no formerpastor of this particular church has everheld the place to exceed two years. LastSunday, the first service after his returnfrom the annual conference, a record-breaking congregation met him when he enteredthe pulpit for the usual Sunday services.All of which leads us to think that, if apreacher is a success the first year of hisprstorate, then he should be more so thesecond, still more so the third and so on adinfinitum. When a preacher finds himselfat logger heads with a majority of the members of the church, over which he presides,he can put it in his pipe and smoke it, thatit is he and not the congregation that'swrong. So long as a pastor of a congregation earnestly preaches and teaches the willof God as he understands it and each daylives up to the principals as set forth in thegolden rule he will never be at outs withthe rank and file of the members and wellwishers of the church, whose destinies hedirects. Five years is the maximum time apreacher of the A. M. E. Church can hold acharge and we see no reason why the Rev.Graham can not hold this charge for twoyears more without fuss, friction or factionalism coming into the congregation.KEEP UP THE GOOOD WORKWhether or not the articles which haveappeared in Cayton's Weekly from time totime encouraging its colored readers to purchase homes while purchasing is good, weknow not, but we do know that many ofthem are acquiring homes at present andstill many more making prepartions to do soat an early date. A few days ago we toldof Mr. and Mrs. Al. Duncanson purchasinga home on Thirty-second and since that timeSid Holden and C. J. Johns have purchasedbeautiful homes thereabouts. Not in thesame neighborhood, but in the same sectorof the city other colored families are weeklyacquiring homes and at the rate they arepurchasing homes in the very near futurethe colored man renting property will be theexception and not the rule. On Tenth andKing a colored man recently purchased abrick house containing thirty rooms and heis preparing to put it in first class conditionfor an up-to-date rooming house.At the Business League last Sunday afternoon it was predicted that within the nextten years colored citizens would hold thebulk of the property between Jefferson andMadison streets and Twenty-first and Twenty-eighth avenues, which is one of the mostVOL. 3, NO. 15